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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Charleston, WV

May 4, 1996Boyd County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1996, 1:40 AM EDT for Boyd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 4, 1996, 1:40 AM EDT (05:40 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 1996, 2:15 AM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Boyd County, KY

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 153 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 298 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 1:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWayne36 min
May 4, 2:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone25 min
May 4, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWebster54 min
May 4, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXRandolph51 min
May 4, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMason32 min
May 4, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Wood52 min
May 4, 6:17 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXMason43 min
May 4, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson, Wirt52 min
May 4, 6:30 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXJackson30 min
May 4, 6:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha, Putnam, Roane54 min
May 4, 6:47 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXCalhoun, Ritchie43 min
May 4, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXDoddridge, Gilmer30 min
May 4, 7:04 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXDoddridge41 min
May 4, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBraxton, Lewis47 min
May 4, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXClay47 min
May 4, 7:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXBarbour, Harrison, Lewis3 hr
May 4, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBarbour, Harrison, Randolph, Upshur, Webster60 min
May 4, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXNicholas60 min
May 4, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXTaylor60 min
May 4, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXPocahontas50 min
May 4, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson45 min
May 4, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXVinton31 min
May 4, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXMeigs51 min
May 4, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson50 min
May 4, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia34 min
May 4, 1:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCarter, Elliott42 min
May 4, 1:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLawrence44 min
May 4, 1:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGreenup37 min
May 4, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCarter42 min
May 4, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoyd, Carter, Lawrence40 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.